The environment Bennett referred to is the rapid, dizzying transformation of major college sports toward a professional model ...

Tom Amlong, who died in 2009 at age 73, is believed to be the first from UVA to climb atop the medal stand. UVA has begun offering “tech sabbatical” courses, requiring students to put away their ...

Just weeks after current and former Cavaliers captured a school-record 14 medals at the Paris Olympics, rower Skylar Dahl added another.

Editor’s note: This is a longform story. For an abridged version, click here. The latched door that opened by itself. The face peering over a shoulder. An unlit flashlight in an unoccupied room ...

Tina Fey usually arrived early to her classes at the University of Virginia. Drama professor Richard Warner remembers heading down early to Culbreth B006, a basement classroom, and finding Fey sitting ...

It would have made perfect sense for Kate Douglass (Col ’23, Grad ’28) to swim for Stanford University. The insider websites had her as either the No. 1 or No. 2 girls recruit in the country her ...

Rare is the person who can walk by the Pratt Ginkgo in late fall without stopping to stare at branches full of gold coins, shining in the light. And if you’re fortunate enough to be in the right place ...

The University’s Easters celebrations began innocently enough in the late 19th century as formal dances, held Monday through Saturday of the week following Easter Sunday. In those early days of ...

Its wonder is realized in the embracing stillness one senses within moments of entering the University of Virginia Cemetery. The nearby commotion of traffic and student life is somehow held at bay, ...

A place with a 200-year history like UVA is bound to have tales to tell—tragedies, untimely deaths, unsettled lore. UVA has begun offering “tech sabbatical” courses, requiring students to put away ...

“The most important thing to point out,” says Michael Suarez, director of UVA’s Rare Book School, “is that despite lots of writing to the contrary, the book is not dead.” Suarez notes that in 2010 ...

The year before the founding, Thomas Jefferson declines a prominent planter’s suggestion that he expand his revolutionary ideas about education to encompass women. Jefferson notes the rigorous ...